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Anonymous Sun Jan 21 15:59:23 2018 No.1318355 [Reply] [Original]

Hello r/DIY. I have found a boar's skull discarded on the road from a hunter. There is still some crap on it but for the most part it has been picked clean by the scavengers. The skull is in good shape so I took it home. How do I clean it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 16:04:59 2018 No.1318357 Ant pile would clean off the rest in harder to reach places in a few days with out damaging it. Then just wash it off.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 16:08:15 2018 No.1318360 >>1318357 That's a great idea but unfortunately I don't have access to an ant pile. I live in an apartment complex with a bunch of normies and I don;t want to put the skull outside.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 16:09:37 2018 No.1318361 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+clean+an+animal+skull+for+display

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 16:13:23 2018 No.1318364 Well if no ant hill, you could boil the excess off if you can handle the smell

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 16:20:26 2018 No.1318368 >>1318361 I guess you are right. I should have googled this before making the thread. Hydrogen peroxide is what i will use. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 21 18:53:22 2018 No.1318443 >>1318368 Whatever you do, don't work with it inside.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 00:54:18 2018 No.1318608 >>1318355 http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.skull

Anonymous Mon Jan 22 02:36:17 2018 No.1318631

>>1318355
Boil it, scrap off the meat/skin/hair, get blonde highlighting kit from Walmart, put on gloves, mix chemicals per instructions, apply with brush cover everything, put in the sun until dry, wash off with plenty of water, glue teeth back in. Done.

Anonymous Wed Jan 24 13:34:47 2018 No.1319750

>>1318355
Museum taxidermy departments use dermestids (flesh eating beetles) and hydrogen peroxide. The H202 makes it white, plus eliminates most of the smell. I guess you could ask your friendly local university whether they could do it professionally for you, but otherwise, boiling it and scrubbing out the gunk with a toothbrush, then soaking it in H2O2 is probably the way to go on the cheap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 24 14:08:54 2018 No.1319769 >>1318355 how warm is it? just leave it outside for a few weeks small possibility of squirrels chewing on it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 24 14:25:03 2018 No.1319787 >>1318368 Make sure to get a good proof, none of that 3% dollar store shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 24 15:09:07 2018 No.1319820 bleach it if you want that bone white look

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 25 01:53:42 2018 No.1320167 >>1319820 Do not use bleach. It will destroy the bone

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